Joseph D. Unwin

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Joseph Daniel Unwin (* 1895 , † 1936 ) was an ethnologist and anthropologist at Cambridge University . Unwin examined eighty races and ethnic groups with regard to their sexual behavior; its results were only partially received by experts.

Sex and culture

For seven years Unwin researched eighty different indigenous peoples and six different civilized peoples with regard to the suspected connection between a prohibition of direct gratification of the sexual impulses and a correlated social promotion of culture and civilization. He also adds descriptions of historical cultures among the Sumerians , Babylonians , Athenians , Romans and many other peoples. He finally felt compelled to question his own philosophy of life based on the results of his research.

In his book Sex and Culture he advocates the thesis that the more permissive peoples and societies are with regard to sexual life, the lower the respective cultural standard of a people. Unwin speaks of the sublimation of sexual energy into social competence . Unwin's investigation was inspired by Sigmund Freud's theory of sexual sublimation , according to which the drive “starts from an original goal - e. B. sexual nature - is directed to another, culturally higher, ”Unwin's basic thesis postulated a clearly identifiable empirical connection between premarital sexual abstinence and strict monogamy on the one hand and the higher cultural status of a society on the other.

Works

  • Sexual Regulations and Human Behavior. Williams & Norgate, London 1933.
  • Sex and Culture. Oxford University Press, London 1934. ( archive.org )
  • The Scandal of Imprisonment for Debt. Simpkin Marshall, London 1935.
  • Sexual Regulations and Cultural Behavior. Oxford University Press, London 1935.
  • Sex Compatibility in Marriage. Rensselaer, New York 1939.
  • Hopousia: Or, The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society . With an introduction by Aldous Huxley. Oskar Piest, New York 1940. ( babel.hathitrust.org )
  • Our Economic Problems and Their Solution (An Extract from “Hopousia”.) George Allen & Unwin, London 1944.

Selected items

  • Monogamy as a Condition of Social Energy . In: The Hibbert Journal , Vol.XXV, 1927.
  • The Classificatory System of Relationship . In: Man , Vol.XXIX, Sep., 1929.
  • Kinship . In: Man , Vol.XXX, Apr., 1930.
  • Reply to Dr. Morant's 'Cultural Anthropology and Statistics' . In: Man , Vol.XXXV, Mar., 1935.

introduction

  • Dark Rapture: The Sex-life of the African Negro . With an Introduction by JD Unwin. Walden Publication, New York 1939.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Any human society is free to choose either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom; the evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation. In: Unwin: Sex and Culture. P. 412.
  2. ↑ Unwin: Sexual Regulations . Pp. 5-6.
  3. ↑ “Any human society is free to choose either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom; the evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation. " Sex and Culture , London 1934, p. 412.
  4. ↑ Unwin: Sexual Regulations . passim, esp. pp. 45-47.
  5. ↑ Dieter Wyss: The depth psychological schools from the beginning to the present. Development, problems, crises. Göttingen 1991, p. 64.
  6. ↑ Josef Spindelböck: On the necessary rediscovery of chastity: - A way out of social and cultural decadence. (PDF) In: Theological. 2009, issue 9/10.
  7. ↑ Konstantin Mascher: Sex and Culture. An investigation by Joseph D. Unwin. In: DIJG Bulletin 1/2005. Retrieved March 15, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Unwin, Joseph D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unwin, Joseph Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
DATE OF DEATH 1936